He struggled for a minute, was twisted about, shaken, and then set free, and by a supreme effort, reached the landing stairs of the jetty, where, to his surprise, he found that a monstrous shark had bitten his leg off.

The leg had been seized obliquely, and the teeth had gone across the joints, wounding the condyles of the femur.

There were three marks on the left side showing where the fish had first caught him.

The amputation was completed at once, and the man recovered.

Macgrigor reports the case of a man at a fishery, near Manaar, who was bitten by a shark.